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we are dropping down from space getting touchy with windows 8 and leaping over new iPhone carrier I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the iphone has taken a leap into the prepaid no contract world beginning in late June the prepaid carrier leap wireless will sell Apple's iPhone under the cricket service making it the first carrier to sell the iphone without a contract but don't expect the iphone to come cheap the 16 gig 4s will be priced at five hundred dollars normally carriers subsidize a good chunk of a smart phones cost if you get a 2-year contract and leap is shaving off just a little off the full cost so that leaves t-mobile in the corner just tapping its foot waiting for its turn to dance with the iphone in more places it's becoming the common every man fo now it's like the safe pick of the smartphone world is it still cool to have an iPhone send a top video with your thoughts and we can include them in the show New Jersey residents will have to pay sales tax on there amazon.com purchases starting next summer amazon will build warehouses in jersey and would hire several thousand workers amazon already collects sales tax from residents in Kansas Kentucky New York North Dakota and Washington activists have been pushing Congress to pass a law so that everyone has to pay sales taxes in order to make it more fair for those brick-and-mortar stores to compete against online retailers but if you're feeling glum about having a dish out a few more bucks to Amazon over taxes there's a new way to make money from Amazon Amazon electronic trade back program has expanded and now will give you gift cards for trading in old laptops and netbooks the spacex dragon cargo ship returned to Earth thursday afternoon splashing down off baja california peninsula in mexico and completed its historic mission this was the first commercial ship to dock with the space station google voice has been upgraded users can set a custom personal greeting for anyone in their contact list like one for your parents or another for coworkers and a different one for unknown numbers it's all in a tab under google voice's settings you can now download microsoft's release preview of Windows 8 this is the final preview version before the official launch of the operating system this fall Michael like Seth Rosenblatt has been testing it and he says it's like a second beta version so curious downloaders beware it won't be perfect like some new desktop apps tend to crash users will notice that an update to the touchpad drivers lets you use multi-touch gestures on your trackpad like a Mac computer and speaking of Windows there's a funny image making his rounds online if you grew up with AOL in the 90s perhaps the Metro style of windows 8 will feel all too familiar ha the circle of tech life that your tech news update for today for more on the stories in stage show visit cnet.com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey